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by wpwpwpw 1014 days ago
The worst limitations, which are missing documentation for good repairability or alternative drivers programming, general hardware unrepairability and firmware/OS replacement aren't addressed. We saw these issues in that FCC post about IoT. Being the owner of my own device and being able to extend it's lifetime is the baseline for freeing people from tyrannical software and hardware practices.
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There is a separate EU law in the works meant to address that: https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/22/new_eu_right_to_repai...